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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |